Day 21- Breaking the Fast

21 juicy days of conscious fasting have come to a close.  21 luscious days of saturating my body in a rich broth of fresh vegetable and fruit juice, in amounts that only ridiculously privalaged people ever get to experience.  My diet choices over the past 3 weeks are considered a "fast" in the context of our culture and conditions,  where as to others on the planet, it would be considered an extravagant feast and an excessive waste of precious food.  This fact is not lost on me.  I am grateful to be alive, now, in the circumstances in which I exist.  I am grateful for the opportunity to experiement with various ways to make my body healthier and more resilient, and for the resources easily available at my feet to allow me to indulge in a juice fast for 21 full days.  It takes a lot of work and a lot of cooperation from a lot of people to produce the food we all consume, and many of those workers can just barely make ends meet.  So anyway- I'm just sayin, it's good to keep mindful of as many factors in this world as possible, to always have a well rounded perspective.  Ok, dismounting from soap box now.

My morning juice was fantastic, and I went about my day as usual.  I taught yoga, drank my juice and went for a walk downtown, came back to my place, fiddled around a bit, treated myself to my final coffee enema and then did 2 hours of yoga.  Once my practice was complete, the sun had gone down and I was ready to break my fast.

I chose avocado beasue it's very high in healthy fats, and because I've been craving fats so much lately, I thought a high fat diet vegetable would be a good answer.  I chose pear because I'd been juicing all of these beautiful pears and I knew I just had to eat one of them at least.  I chose grapefruit because they are still in season here in Texas and still awesome, so duh, and then I added some lime juice and strawberries becasue a friend gave them to me this morning and they're strawberries.  Salt and sesame seeds make just about anything better.

My mouth was full of flavors, wow are strawberries good.  The first thing to enter my mouth was avocado, the second was pear, and the third was strawberry- and this all happened while slicing because- I mean yah, wouldn't you?

There's still so much to share about the fast, and so I will write a few more posts to wrap up the fast, share some reflections, do some more math, etc.  But for now, I am happy my fast is coming to an end, I am happy to be returning to the world of masticators, and I'm kind of sleepy so I want to go to bed with a book and read myself to sleep.

Thanks to everyone who has been following this blog,  I really appreciate ya'lls comments and support through this whole silly situation I put myself in, and it's been nice to share out into the world.

Here's some pictures of my dinner

JUICE
23 oz orange- 322
7 oz stawberry- 62
6 oz mango- 96
20 oz pinapple- 330

56 ounces at 810 calories

Dinner- Breaking the fast
8 oz pears- 132
½ grapefruit- 44
1 avocado- 235
2 strawberries- 8
cilantro
apple cider vinegar
lime juice
salt
419 calories

Total 1229 calories
and that's the last time I'm counting calories for a long time